Some (forum) common letters and meanings:
ACC - Remington ACCelerator
ACOG - Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight
ACP - Automatic Colt Pistol (.45 ACP, .32 ACP)
AD - Accidental Discharge
AE - Action Express (.41 AE, .50 AE)
AF - Alternative Force
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
AOP - Assault On Principal (Executive Protection)
AOW - Any Other Weapon [zip guns, other non-standard small-bore
firearms]
AP - Armor Piercing
API - Armor Piercing, Incendiary
APT - Armor Piercing, Tracer
ATM - At The Moment
AWB - Assault Weapons Ban (part of the 1994 Crime Bill) [legislation]
BAR Browning Automatic Rifle
BATFE - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; see also F-
Troop
BBWC - Bevel-Base WadCutter
BC - Ballistic Coefficient
BD or B&D - Bain and Davis (.357/44 B&D)
BG - Bad Guy
BHP - Browning HiPower
BMG - Browning Machine Gun
BR - Bench Rest Remington 6mm BR, 7mm BR)
BT - Boat-Tailed
BTT - Back to the Top
BTW - By the Way (seen a lot in on-line forums)
BUG - Backup Gun
Bullet - The projectile portion of a cartridge. (N.B. Should not be confused with a cartridge (or round) that consists of all components, unfired.)
Caliber Sometimes spelled Calibre (British). See
Caliber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for an in depth discussion of caliber types and caliber dimensions.
Cartridge Ammunition for a gun consisting of a bullet, casing, powder, and primer
CB - Cast Bullet
CC - Concealed Carry
CCH - Concealed Carry Handgun
Ciao - (Not an acronym ? Italian for bye-bye)
CCW - Concealed Carry Weapon (includes gun, knife, nuclear device, etc.)
CHL/CCL Concealed handgun license/concealed carry license
CL - Remington Core-Lokt
CF or CofF - Course of Fire
COM - Center of Mass
CONUS - Continental US
CPL - Concealed Pistol License
CQB - Close Combat Battle
CQC - Close Quarters Combat
CRISAT - Cooperative Research into Small Arms Technology
CRS - Can't remember squat (stuff old age disease)
CWP - Concealed Weapon permit
CYA - Cover Your Alternative Front
DA - Double Action. Pulling the trigger cocks the hammer and releases it. The weight of the trigger pull is usually higher than Single Action (SA).
DAO - Double Action Only. See DA (Double Action) and SA (Single Action). DAO means the gun will fire only in Double Action mode and has no Single Action mode. This configuration is often considered an additional safety feature.
DARFC - Duck and Run for Cover
DCM - Director of Civilian Marksmanship
DD - Destructive Device
DEWC - Double Ended Wadcutter
DOA - Dead on Arrival
DPS - Department of Public Safety
DRT - Dead Right There
EBKDDERSFSCCFRTDACHSIBSDXTMELAWKITNBT ? Evil-Baby-Killing Death-Dealing-Emergency-Room-Surgeon-Finger-Shredding-Crime-Causing-Flesh-Ripping-Too-Dangerous-for-Average-Citizen-Heat-Seeking-Innocent-Bystander-Search-and-Destroy-eXploding-Tearing-Maiming-End-of-Life-As-We-Know-It-Thermo-Nuclear-Black-Talon, which, due to an unfortunate corporate decision, was the name that these particular bullets got instead of the name 'Winchester Safety Blossoms' suggested by Chris Luchini (rec.guns Tue Nov 23 1993).
EDC - Every day carry
EDP - Emotionally Disturbed Person (NYPD)
EFMJ - Expanding Full Metal Jacket
EIN - Employer Identification Number
EO - Executive Order
FFL - Federal Firearms License
FMJ - Full Metal Jacket
Foot-pound - The effort required to lift 1 lb. to a height of 1 ft. at sea level. (ft.-lb.) This term is used to describe the energy of moving objects, including bullets (Guns&Ammo, p. 18, May, 2007).
FOPA - Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 [legislation]
FP - Flat Point
FST - Winchester Fail Safe Talon (Black Talon)
FTDR - Failure to do right
FTE - Failure to Eject
FTF - Failure to Feed; Failure to Fire; Face-to-Face (used in gun sales to describe an in-state sale of a gun as opposed to an interstate sale, which must be accomplished through an individual with a Federal Firearms License
FTN - Failure to Neutralize F-Troop BATFE
FUBAR - Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition. [The Oxford English Dictionary lists Yank, the Army Weekly magazine (1944, 7 Jan. p. 8) as its earliest citation: "The FUBAR Squadron ... FUBAR? It means 'Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition.'"] In the 1944 U.S. Army animated short The Three Brothers (directed by Friz Freleng), a character named Fubar is a brother of Private Snafu (Situation Normal, All Fouled Up)[2] and Tarfu (Things Are Really Fouled Up, or Totally and Royally Fouled Up).
FWIW - For What It?s Worth
GA or G&A - Guns & Ammo Magazine (.40 G&A, .460 G&A)
Ga., ga. - Gauge. Refers to the bore of a shotgun. See
Shotgun shell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for an in depth discussion of shotgun shells and shotgun gauges.
GAP - Glock Automatic Pistol
GCA - Gun Control Act of 1968 [legislation]
GDAR - Grin, Duck, and Run
GDHP - Speer Gold Dot Hollow Point
GG - Good Guy
GOA - Gun Owners of American GSSF Glock Sport Shooting Foundation (for Glock owners who don't want to compete with, and risk being beaten by, owners of another brand of gun). chuckle
HBWC - Hollow-Base WadCutter
HD - Home Defense
HDC - Home Defense Carbine
HH or H&H - Holland & Holland (.375 H&H)
HMG - Heavy Machine Gun
HP - Hollow Point. This means that the bullet in a cartridge has a hollow place in the nose. This aids in expansion of the round when it enters the target. (See also, Ballistics, Bullets).
HPJ - Remington High Performance Jacketed (Golden Sabre)
HR or H&R - Harrington & Richardson (.32 H&R Mag
HSP - Highly sensitive person
IANAD - I Am Not A Doctor
IANAL - I Am Not A Lawyer
IANAR - I Am Not A Rat
IBS - International Benchrest Shooters
IDLE - International Dateline West
IDLW - International Dateline West
IDPA - International Defensive Pistol Association
IFF - Identification ? Friend or Foe
IHMSA - International Handgun Metallic Silhouette Assoc. (7mm IHMSA)
IIRC - If I Remember Correctly
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO - In My Opinion
IMR - Improved Military Rifle (Originally, DuPont's name for some of its canister powders.)
IPSC - International Practical Shooting Confederation
IWB - Inside [the] Waist Band (a carry position for a holster)
J Jacketed
JBT - Jack Booted Thug
JDJ - J. D. Jones (.375 JDJ)
JFP - Jacketed Flat Point
JHC - Jacketed Hollow Center/Jacketed Hollow Cavity
(to be continued)
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